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Table 2 Rates of appointment attendance of traditional and triage approach to preventive youth health care (PYHC) assessment

From: A novel triage approach of child preventive health assessment: an observational study of routine registry-data

 

Traditional approach

Triage approach

 

Assessment by PYHC doctor

Pre-assessment by PYHC doctor's assistant

Follow-up assessment by PYHC doctor or nurse

Appointment for assessment, N

390

386a

163b

Appointment attendance, N (%)

351 (90.0)

372 (96.4)

143 (87.7)

  1. aFour children were excluded from analyses due to incomplete data.
  2. bEight children did not receive a call for follow-up assessment while being positively assessed by the assistant.